I've had that complaints for four years when I had to use macos to develop for an iPad. As a Windows(or Plasma) user its window manager is just absurdly behind the times with its exclusive full screen and lack of snapping or having to edit application manifests so you can put the simulator in a tiled setup. It really didn't give me a good impression on why people like macos for development apart from having a shell with outdated utilities. It also doesn't respect the reduced motion accessibility preference to the same degree that windows does, it's how I get around annoyingly long animations on there.

To be fair, in the early days of Mac OS X the shell used to be much more up to date and hacking things around was much easier because they didn't yet put all those "security" features all other the place.

The folder layout of the system was also much cleaner and logical but now it feels like windows where data may be hidden in many layers of randomly named subfolders.

As for the hardware, the early intel MacBook Pros were extremely good for repairability and longevity. They lost some of it with the switch to "unibody" but it still was rather decent with most things accessible and replaceable (battery, ram, storage).

I think it is largely understated how much things went downhill after Tim Cook took over because people are blinded by financial success. Steve Jobs had learned some hard lessons before coming back to Apple and applied them with a lot of success, it seems all of this went out of the window and now it's all about making shiny hardware that has to be replaced on schedule preferably.

They say power corrupt but money has seems to have that characteristic, but then again, money is some form of power.